Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.)is all about blind loyalty.
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John Kennedy should be drinking Night Train Express from a paperbag behind the Circle K. He's helped assure that the billionaires will eventually become trillionaires once they vulture all the tanked stocks. He'll be rewarded for it, don't you worry your pretty head about his "concerns".
If only these Republicans "speaking out" against Trump decimating the economy were members of some kind of political body with the power to stop this executive overreach...
The problem is their aren’t enough of them willing to speak up so the few that might don’t wish to lose their power, so they remain quiet convincing themselves they are doing the right thing by “living to fight another day”.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving pack of rodents.
don't hate on rodents
Dam maybe they should stop voting for it and enabling it.
It's like they want to support a fascist coup and not be executed when it goes wrong.
He's pulling a McConnell (blocked impeachment consequences both times), have all the power to prevent it and do nothing, then complain when shit happens because of you to try to shift the blame.
I was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the disappearing of citizens and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the ending the rule of law and the threats to invade neighboring countries and the building-a-golf-resort-on-top-of-a-genocide, but now he's giving Wall Street the jitters, so I'm not so sure about this guy any more.
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'We're All Dead'
Okay well hurry up about it.
Tired of false promises, man.
If only...
Yeah but red colour go brrr4r
shouldve convicted him the first 2 times he was impeached, but mitch mcconell has his money and left you all to your fate.
While Kennedy didn’t vote against Trump’s emergency tariff powers
Shut the fuck up then, Senator. Your vote matters. Your comments don't.
One more dinosaur who thinks people should give a fuck about things other than his actual actions. Pure distraction.
News that I was forced to listen to in the break room at work said that the tariffs will be good for America and long as the country don't put retaliatory tariffs that they just lay down and take them then Trump won't add more. Seriously tired of our media bending the knee for trump and lying to thier listeners.
Watching Fox, were you?
Nope Channel 6 news in Tulsa.
forced to listen to in the break room at work
What "news" was this, if you don't mind me asking?
Totally agree that US media is a shell of what used to be journalism. Profits control all.
Our local channel 6 news. They're right wing news.
Probably a Sinclair owned station. Their as bad or worse than Fox because their stealthier.
Nope locally owned. They love letting us know that. Just owmed by Trump loving people.
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wasn’t concerned enough about President Donald Trump's steep international tariffs to vote against them Wednesday
Then shut the fuck up and enjoy your vote.
"idiot votes for thing he is absolutely against"
like all conservatives, they lack the will or ability to think or act like autonomous human beings.
He's a fucking liar.
If he voted for it, he isn't against it.
The political system is inherently set up for politicians to compromise for their self-interest — because money. For personal profit and/or to get re-elected. There was a decent New Yorker article I read on the matter a few years ago that suggested something along the lines that, even if a politician begins their career with the best intentions, the process of getting elected for higher and higher offices erodes those intentions. That's even if they had any decent intentions to begin with, of course.
That's what would happen if something like Career Politicians were allowed to take over the system...
Oh wait... That happened decades ago... 🤦♀️ 🙄
🤡 🖕 🖕
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they need mitch mcconnell to tell them what to do, unfortunately hes staying away like the snake he is from this mess. the true mastermind of the gop in the party was MITCH.
These idiots passed the CR, and knew it was going to happen lmao tf? is this
Oh, wouldn't that be nice.
What a misleading headline. The full quote from the article is:
“In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday. “Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy.”
So he's not saying "we're all dead [as a result of this action]" he's just giving a shitty excuse for making foolish decisions.
Exactly. It seems people really need it spelled out to them: he's saying protectionism works in the long term but they're old and will all be dead(a keynes quote "The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead"). He's wrong though. Protectionism, which are essentially self sanctions, can develop an industry as much as not. Nothing's a vacuum.
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In the long run, we’re all dead
Yeah, that's the plan. But you guys could have predicted that because we all did.
What has to happend to cancel a political party? Like, officially?
The People string up the leaders from the street, historically.
The People put the leaders to the guillotine, historically.
The short drop will do just fine.
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There was that no kings act bill. Why not dig that back up?
Any military workers/veterans in here? When are you gonna uphold your sworn oath to the constitution?
If they haven't by now, and they haven't, they aren't going to.
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In the long run, we’re all dead
Isn't Foghorn Leghorn quoting Keynes here? Why, I thought Keynes [1] was right up there with Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky [2] in the pantheon of Bad Guys the cons don't know a fucking thing about but constantly talk about.
[1] I'm still convinced a lot of racist dumbfucks thought that Keynesian had something to do with Kenyan, because Obama is Blah.
[2] I remember in the height of qons talking about "Alinsky style politics" I'd ask them to explain what they mean by that? Also, have they read Rules for Radicals? If so, what is so bad in there? What is the book about? I also asked them if the mere use of satire is "Alinsky style politics" does that mean Mark Twain had a time machine and he traveled into the future to get tips from Alinsky or something? Hilarity would ensue...
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“I mean, granted, I did absolutely no homework about tariffs, nor did I take what basically amounted to all of the economists warnings in consideration, but doggone it, I really thought this con-artist was on to something - and to that, I can’t help but feel a little misled. Is it really my responsibility to make the best decisions for my constituents? Accountability is for suckers and leaders.”
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Oh cheer up republicans! In 60 years there'll be more idiots who might vote for you. Unless they ever ask any old person why they're homeless.
Senator Kennedy can go fuck himself for enabling Trump for the last decade. I’m glad he can see the disaster that’s going to swallow him and his colleagues coming.
…. While Kennedy didn’t vote against Trump’s emergency tariff powers-
John Kennedy is a shrewd little rat fuck piece of shit. Highly educated, despite his carefully curated backwater shit kicker persona. I dare say he’s a canary in the coal mine.
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